A federal court has rejected former Angels communications director Eric Kay’s appeal of his two felony convictions in the death of Tyler Skaggs in a terse, four-page ruling that affirmed Kay’s guilt for supplying the fentanyl-laced oxycodone that killed the Angels pitcher in 2019.
Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison in October 2022. Skaggs died in his Southlake, Texas, hotel room on July 1, 2019, after the 27-year-old took the drugs supplied to him by Kay. The Angels were to begin a series against the Texas Rangers the next day.